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There is an FCP thread that somehow survives being archived in SH/SC but this is really a better place for it if you ask me. I'm an editor who works in Avid MC and FCP. I love one and after a few weeks pine for the other. Recently it seems the internet is filled with nothing but hate for FCP. Too many people offended that they have to convert their DSLR footage to a decent format before editing.
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JimFinlay posted:I've just upgraded to version 5 of Avid and by default it actually had this retarded tool set activated that forces you to drag and drop the footage. It's easily turned off, but I was a little surprised. That's hosed up. I'm still on 3.5 over here without any real problem. I got much faster when I moved away from dragging and dropping and embraced the keyboard. Avid is the perfect tool to learn how to be more deliberate with your edits.
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Nov 23, 2010 23:43
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Jalumibnkrayal posted:I might be off on this, but I think the best way to do it currently is to edit it natively in Premiere Pro CS5. You don't need to transcode or use an intermediate codec. It creates a 32bit "float" image that gets edited, so the dogma of never editing H.264 gets bypassed. If you have an approved Nvidia CUDA video card, it will even render effects in real time. Seriously, it's pretty amazing if you work with a lot of HD DSLR footage. You're still accepting generation loss on render or export.
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Nov 27, 2010 19:12
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1st AD posted:Has anyone set up a Compressor/Qmaster server before? I see old Powermac G5's running around for $200 and am tempted to set a couple up as clusters for rendering. Do you absolutely have to have a SAN to maximize their use, or can you just make sure that each cluster has a copy of all the media? Just doing a quick cluster is good enough, it'll copy the needed media. A gigabit network is pretty much a must. Not sure how much those G5s will actually help.
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Nov 28, 2010 05:45
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Cutting a concert. If you've got opinions on concert DVDs check out my thread in CineD. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3367918
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Nov 29, 2010 22:31
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Premiere is a mess. Give Avid MC a shot, it might make more sense. I don't know of any editor that's node based, some have node like features but video editing sorta requires a timeline. Editing is just a different animal. Trust me, I'm so helplessly lost in Maya.
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Nov 30, 2010 17:21
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Avid DS and Smoke are both node based to a certain extent. Most compositing programs are, Nuke, Shake, even Combustion. Other than the FX room in Color my only node experience is with Combustion. I thought it was an easy introduction to it, you're not forced to work that way. Shake still gets the best of me, it's good thing I don't have to spend much time there. butterypancakes fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Nov 30, 2010 |
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Nov 30, 2010 18:56
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They are h.264. If it's destined for a DVD you could just take it to DV 16x9.
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Dec 11, 2010 06:47
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Balzac posted:Premiere CS5 has native h.264 support. I'd just download the 30-day trial and work from that. Not for all levels of h.264
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Dec 16, 2010 23:24
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Encore would also work.
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Dec 20, 2010 19:32
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Color only has a one point tracker, so you can't track how something scales or rotates. You can add keyframes to a user shape once it's assigned back to your secondary. Adding a keyframe is control+9.
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Dec 23, 2010 18:22
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That seems like a huge over simplification. Watch something like White Christmas and then watch Breathless. They are very different films, only 6 years apart, but it's not the pace of the cut that makes them different. For the most part Breathless is slower. There are plenty of films and TV shows that aren't cut fast. Bullitt is just as fast as many action films today.
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Dec 28, 2010 21:32
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JimFinlay posted:I don't think MPEG Streamclip will work with AVCHD unless you either buy Quicktime's MPEG2 decoder (seriously?) or use Quicktime Alternative. MPEG Streamclip doesn't support AVCHD. Pinnacle HD will edit it.
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Jan 3, 2011 06:22
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AIIAZNSK8ER posted:Maybe I'm assuming the wrong thing. I thought my miniDV doesn't work because its too old to work with windows 7 and figured anything else in the same range would be the same case. Probably not. As a matter of fact your old camera should work just fine.
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Jan 6, 2011 17:33
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DNxHD is a great option.
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Jan 15, 2011 17:25
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Man_of_Teflon posted:Quick question as I'm a complete scrub with aftereffects, but this looks like the thread to ask in: Are you just dropping the AE comp in Premeire? I see no reason not to just render out the comp. DNxHD is a great choice for this.
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Feb 6, 2011 22:22
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It's happened to me, but it's never caused a sync issue. Most likely it's a drop/non-drop issue. So no info is missing, it's just counted differently. Export OMF from now on.
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Feb 22, 2011 20:23
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Your DVD player software isn't de-interlacing on playback, of course you'll see jagged edges. If your TV is a CRT it's interlaced so you won't see any problems, if it's anything else it will always de-interlace. Your DVDs are probably just fine. If there was a field order issue or real tearing you'd most likely see it on the TV.
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Mar 15, 2011 22:21
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Page 688 of FCP's manual disagrees with you. Progressive material should be set to none, in my experience it doesn't matter if you're on a progressive timeline. EDIT: That could be part of OP's problem. Make sure your sequence is set to "none". If it's 29.97 then Compressor will create fields, if it's 24 you can just make a progressive DVD and let the player do a soft 3:2 on TVs. butterypancakes fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Mar 16, 2011 |
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Mar 15, 2011 23:58
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REDCODE demands a thought out and established workflow. It gets better, like in a lot of things don't expect your first try to be perfect.
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Mar 29, 2011 18:23
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ProRes 4444 and LT are included with FCP 7.
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Mar 30, 2011 07:00
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bassguitarhero posted:I just do it manually, but then I never have all that many subtitles to make. I've done them in English & Japanese for videos up to 10 minutes long by just using the text option in Viewer and, for me, it's such a small chunk of time out of the total editing process that I haven't really bothered to look up alternative methods. You mean just using the text fx to do open captions? Or do you know something I don't know?
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May 3, 2011 17:49
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It doesn't look like it's ready for the office, but if my MBP wasn't so old I'd get it for home in a heart beat. I can't wait to play with Audition and the Magnetic Timeline. Hopefully it doesn't take them long to update v1 with XML/OMF export and Multiclip timelines.
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Jun 21, 2011 17:25
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mayodreams posted:Today has validated THREE years of my campaigning that we should switch back to Avid because Apple only cares about iDevices. To quote Dr. Ian Malcom: "Boy, do I hate being right all the time." Yeah, they only care about iDevices, that's why they spent lots of time and money rewriting FCP from scratch. It'll be updated, if it doesn't work for you then use 7. My main client still has 6, it's fine. Not sure why people are so disappointed, it's not ready, so don't use it yet.
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Jun 22, 2011 18:06
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FLX posted:Seriously? They announced the next great editing suite and specifically NOT an "iMovie Pro" product, yet they seemed to have released exactly that. Why is it iMovie Pro? Because it looks like iMovie? Because it can't export an XML? Ever tried to get a decent EDL out of Premiere? You can't tell me that Clip Connections and the Inline Editors aren't vast improvements over FCP 7. Or that background rendering won't be copied by every other editor in the coming years. It's a total rewrite, that's the real advantage. Adding a few features to 7 and putting it out for $1000 would have lead to more users on day 1, but QT and FCP 7 are on their last leg. Something had to be done and Apple took the time to do it. Even if they wait a year to add things like XML and OMF export and even then if you have to pay another $300. You've still got a new editor on the most modern code base out there for half the price of FCS.
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Jun 22, 2011 19:26
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magiccarpet posted:Instead, HUGE pieces of the software were removed. I think you mean "have yet to be added".
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Jun 22, 2011 20:49
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magiccarpet posted:If that was the case, they should be telling people this. The lack of communication from Apple is frustrating. It's been like 3 days. I don't know about you but my work has been getting done just the same since Wednesday.
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Jun 24, 2011 17:36
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magiccarpet posted:I put things on HDCAM SR tape when finished and need an external monitor for color correction. So I don't use this product. Is this some sort of dick measurement? I don't care. Your workflow doesn't all ready include some sort of real finishing software? Automatic Duck your way on over to that.
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Jun 24, 2011 19:06
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thunderspanks posted:More on the "FCPX is really imovie" bandwagon (just emailed to me by our senior video editor) http://provideocoalition.com/index.php/shullfish/story/proof_that_fcp_x_is_really_just_imovie_-_directly_from_apple/ The dumbest thing I've read in a long time... and this last week on this side of the internet has been nuts. Apple will fix FCP X. If you're really into knee jerk decisions go ahead and jump ship.
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Jun 28, 2011 21:42
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QuickTime or x264 if you're feeling fancy to an h.264 MOV then use QT's MP4 with the "pass-through" option to make it an MP4.
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Jun 30, 2011 19:47
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The passthrough option will not re-encode the video, it just changes the container. Your settings should be made to spec when you make the MOV. QuickTime h264 can't do anything higher than L 4.1. 8Mbps is lots of bandwidth, you could get away with less. I often use a version of x264 that can be used like any other QT codec. As long as you start with the "component" preset and don't gently caress with anything other than the framerate, bitrate and maybe adding a gamma tag, it should play everywhere. You can definitely get yourself into trouble if you play around with all the settings. The results are faster than QT's h.264 and higher quality. http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/mycometg3/
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Jun 30, 2011 20:09
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AIIAZNSK8ER posted:I'm using Canon HF200 and a Canon HV30 which I set to shoot at 24p. The HF200 is just drag and drop clips and I captured the HV30 footage over firewire. When I drop it into a premiere timeline, it's telling me that the clips are 29.97 fps? Is it really not recording at 24 fps? There should be a capture preset for HDV 24, it will remove the pulldown on capture. Are you sure you shot HDV, not DV? I guess I've never had a problem with FCP recognizing the correct frame rate when capturing HDV.
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Jul 11, 2011 16:17
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1st AD posted:The HV30's implementation of 24p is really atrocious and you shouldn't use it, and there are no flags set on the tape that tell your NLE what fields to throw away either. Not the same at all as the 24f mode on the XHA1. Good to know. My HDV experience is almost all XHA1s, so that was my line of thought.
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Jul 11, 2011 22:25
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The way I understood it was that Compressor 4 is the bridge between FCPX's AV Foundation underpinnings and QT Kit, which lets you use all the codecs you're used to. So, most of the functionality is probably the exact same.
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Jul 12, 2011 17:56
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1st AD posted:http://imgur.com/7SiqC What format you working in? I have also heard about random graphics issues in Lion.
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Aug 17, 2011 18:14
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1st AD posted:It's pretty annoying that Apple would ship a major OS release with some obvious problems that affect a huge portion of their user base. It happens. I think you mentioned buying a new Mac, that probably had 10.7, but otherwise get used to waiting a long time to upgrade your OS. Avid actually got their update out really quick this time... yesterday I think.
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Aug 18, 2011 18:46
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I've been using Pond5 quite a bit lately, good music and cheap. I've gotten a few tracks from this guy https://www.pond5.com/artist/AudioQuattro
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Aug 19, 2011 00:05
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Fedex a hard drive.
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Sep 9, 2011 17:06
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1st AD posted:I'm looking for a long term, redundant, and expandable storage solution for managing videos - about 50-70tb of new media for each year. What are my options here? Sounds like you're in SAN territory.
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Unless you have rolling shutter problems Mocha works great. The Foundry's Rolling Shutter plugin works all right, but it's as expensive as you'd assume.
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